Improved washing compound



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W. LEONARD, OF PITTSBURG, AND J. J. JOHNSTON, OF ALLEGHENY OITY,

PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED WASHING COMPOUND,

Specificationforming part of Letters Patent No. 56,959, dated August 7, 1866. 7

in about the following proportions, and in the manner substantially as hereinafter described. To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our washing compound, we will proceed to describe the manner of making it and the mode of using the same.

We take two pounds of sal-soda; one pound of white lime, slaked; three ounces of borax;

- one ounce of strong spirits of camphor. We

reduce the sal-soda, lime, and boraX to a fine powder, each ingredient in a separate mortar or vessel. WVe then sprinkle the spirits of camphor on the lime, mixing and agitating the lime and camphor well together. We then put the sal-soda, borax, and camphorated lime into a suitable vessel, agitate and triturate the whole until it forms one homogeneous mass of dry powder having a camphoraceous odor; This powder we put up in strong and close paper packages, each package containing about twelve ounces of the dry camphorated powder.

When we desire to use the powder we put in a clean iron pot one gallon of cold water, and then add to water one of the packages of powder, stirring the powder well through the water, after which we place the pot over a moderate fire and boil for about ten minutes,

taking care to stir the water and powder dur-* ing the boiling process. After boiling remove the pot from the fire and let the liquid settle, and after it becomes perfectly clear andcold draw off the clear liquor into a suitable vessel. Soak the white clothes to be washed in warm suds for two or three hours. After soaking wring them out and soap the dirty parts. They are then ready for the wash-boiler. Fill the boiler with the desired quantity of water; then put into this water about halt a pint of the liquor above described, stirring it well with the water in the boiler; then put the clothes in the boiler and boil for about fifteen minutes, after which give the clothes one rubhing; rinse out in clean bluewater, and wring and dry in the ordinary manner.

The advantages of our improved washing compound are as follows: We save more than one-half of the labor in washing. We save at least one-haltof the soap which is ordinarily required in washing. We save more than onehalf of the rubbing; hence we save the wear of the clothes to avery great extent in the washing process. We entirely destroy that sickening, disgusting, nauseating, and unhealthy odor which always attends the washing and boiling of dirty clothes. We save the hands and arms of the washerwoman, for she is not required to keep her hands and arms in hot and very unhealthy suds. Our washingcompound and the liquor made from it destroys all that is sickening and disagreeable in the suds, giving said suds a smooth oily feeling to the hands and arms. All of the above advantages have been discovered and revealed by actual experiments, by trials made upon dirty bed-clothes and other kinds of clothes common to that day which is dreaded most of all other days--viz., wash-day.

Having thus described our improvement in washing compound, what we claim as of our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is

The compound herein described, compounded of the ingredients named and in the quantities specified, said ingredients being manipulated and treated in the manner and for the purpose herein described and set forth.

WILLARD LEONARD. JAMES J. JOHNSTON. Witnesses:

JAMEs McBRroE, A. O. JOHNSTON. 

